Almost Dusk {A Black Widow Story}

CHAPTER TWELVE

(Natasha's Perspective)

Strolling through the streets of Romania was like finding ourselves time travelling back to an ancient city, its monumental buildings lining the old looking streets.

There were market stalls along the roadside, newsstands stocked with brightly coloured magazines, and people roaming everywhere.

It wasn't hard to blend in with the cacophony of local residents and tourists. It seemed everywhere we turned there were people sightseeing and going about their business.

I scanned the streets behind my sunglasses, hoping to catch a glimpse of anything out of the ordinary.

But there was so much to see it was hard to know where to start.

Beside me, Eva took pictures with a small digital camera.

To anyone else it would look like she's capturing the sights of the beautiful city life. But in reality, she was storing each image to refer to later so we had greater scope of the city.

We went all over the city looking for anything we could take as a sign of disturbance by the Soviet Intelligence forces that were said to have landed here, but the longer the day wore on, the less sure we were of their whereabouts.

Suddenly, something in the corner of my vision caught my attention.

It was a man, dressed a little too warmly for such a mild day like today. He stood at the corner of two streets, dark tinted sunglasses hiding his eyes.

He seemed to be on the lookout for something. When his head swivelled in our direction, he froze.

I slowed my pace, putting a hand out to signal Barton to do the same.

And just like that, the man in the dark glasses backed away and headed down the street he must have come from.

That's when I knew we found them.

"Let's go." I say through a neutral expression.

And we change our direction so that we begin travelling up that side street the man had gone.

Walking briskly, but remaining unfazed, we made our way down the street.

There were less people out this way but still a few who milled about here and there.

The man was out of sight, but it was a good guess where he had been heading to.

What stood before us appeared to be a small looking hospital building. It looked a little worse for wear, but the unhinged door just off to the side was enough to confirm my suspicions.

Heading towards it, we slowed our pace again, using the time to scan the perimeter.

"Looks clear from here." Clint mutters as he checks out the left side while I look out for the right side.

"No one behind us." Eva announces next to me.

"Let's check out the back then, shall we?" I say as we stray from the path leading to the unhinged front door of the building.

Passing around the side of the place, there was nothing but some low hanging trees and overgrown grass.

At first I figured there wouldn't be anything behind here, but as we found out way to the back of the building, there stood another door.

This one wasn't left as ajar as the front one, but it wasn't completely closed either.

"It could be a trap." I hear Clint say behind me, tossing his glasses to the ground.